Cyrille Rigaud

Jean-Cyrille Rigaud (28 January 1750 – 29 January 1824) was a French poet, playwright and doctor from Occitania.

Rigaud was born in Montpellier. Raised by his father, who was a librarian, he studied in Geneva. In his youth, he won a prize awarded by the Académie des Jeux floraux.

Publications

 * Éloge de Roucher, Montpellier, 1807, in-8°.
 * Épître à MM. les étudiants en médecine de la Faculté de Montpellier, Montpellier, de l'impr. de J. Martel le jeune, 1823, in-8°
 * Pouesias patouesas, Mounpeïé, Renaud, 1806, in-18.
 * Poésies diverses, with Auguste Rigaud, Montpellier, de l'impr. de C.-J. Tournel, 1821, in-12 de 138 (contains fables, several speeches, including the Éloge de Roucher, read at the Académie de Montpellier in 1813, and inserted in the collection of that Société.)
 * Pouésias patouèsas de Cyrilla Rigaud émbé edouquas péças d'Augusta Rigaud et dé différens doutvrs, Mounpéïé, Renaud, 1821, in-12.

Translations

 * Mémoire pour servir à l'histoire de quelques insectes, connus sous les noms de termites, ou fourmis blanches : et accompagné de figures gravées en taille-douce by Henry Smeathman, Paris, De La Rochelle, 1786.